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Australia's BAT hospital - where adorable abandoned baby creatures are wrapped in blankets and fed with bottles Abandoned baby bats have been pictured recuperating in hospital while swaddled in colourful blankets The Tolga Bat Hospital is a community group working for the conservation of bats and their natural habitat. The furry critters are grounded due to tick paralysis About 300 baby bats are orphaned each year due to tick paralysis or because their mother is too ill to feed them Tick paralysis kills hundreds of bats every year on the Atherton Tablelands

You are right, those are cute photos... too bad they are such sick little guys.

This summer I saw a grounded bat in a parking lot so I scooped it up with some cardboard and took it to a shrub. I's wings looked OK, no broken bones that I coud see. I couldn't get it to grab onto a limb so I tossed it up in the air, thinking it might be able then to fly away. But it only went about 50 feet and crashed again. At least it was in tall grass and not out on the hot blacktop with big 18 wheelers rolling by.

In the northeast USA , and around here in Ohio, many small brown bats get a fungal disease known as White-Nose. It has killed off huge numbers. so far, there is no cure.